31 Results for : mobbed
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Chicago: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min
A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago - a city where some people knew too much and where everyone should have known better - by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge - veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry - probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic tale that roars through the Windy City's underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era; suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak", richness of voice, pace, and brio; and exploring - as no other writer can - questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Frangione. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006534/bk_harp_006534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Homeland, Hörbuch, Digital, 277min
It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Polish refugee propaganda reaches its height, Wladyslaw Malinowski, a young veteran of Monte Cassino, now stranded in a resettlement camp on the Somerset Levels, attempts to start a new life on a withy farm in the middle of the wetlands. His taskmaster is Billy Greer, newly de-mobbed, and itching to escape to a job in London. Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troubled, elusive, and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away again, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyslaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. Homeland is Clare Francis's finest achievement. Atmospheric, rich in description, it depicts with dramatic power the turbulence of a country beggared by war, and the uncertainties of the men returning to it. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Russell Beale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000331/bk_macm_000331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Coq au Vin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
Will hard-boiled New York street musician Nanette Hayes find love and music in the city of lights - or only heartbreak and murder? After a series of harrowing events, sassy self-taught saxophonist Nanette Hayes is back to her routine: street performing from the theater district to Riverside Park to Park Avenue, haunting the music stores on Bleecker, hanging out at the mobbed-up strip club where her BFF, Aubrey, is the reigning diva, and, to keep her mom in the dark, inventing more and more tales about her fictitious job at NYU as a French teacher. When Nanette's overprotective mother tells her that her glamorous, bohemian auntie Vivian has gone missing in France under mysterious circumstances, Nanette is dispatched to Paris to help. Paris - her favorite city! Nan has to keep her focus on the mystery at hand and not on the coq au vin and Veuve Clicquot and jazz clubs. But the vibrant scene turns out to be the very thing that leads her deep into the underbelly of historic Paris, the crux of her aunt's disappearance, a twenty-year-old murder - and a sexy duet with Andre, a gifted violinist and fellow street musician from Detroit who puts his life on the line to prove his love for Nanette. Coq au Vin is the second book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Eller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022039/bk_adbl_022039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Frog Prince: A Romantic Comedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min
It was his pheromones that did it. With one sniff, sex researcher Leigh Fromm recognizes that any offspring she might have with the mysterious stranger would have a better-than-average chance of surviving any number of impending pandemics. But when Leigh finds out that the handsome "someone" at her great aunt's wake is Prince Roman Habsburg von Lorraine of Austria, she suddenly doubts her instincts - not that she was intending to sleep with the guy. The royal house of Habsburg was once completely inbred, insanity and impotency among the highlights of their genetic pedigree. (The extreme "bulldog underbite" that plagued them wasn't called the Habsburg Jaw for nothing.) It doesn't matter that his family hasn't sat on a throne (other than the ones in their Toilette) since 1918, or that Austria is now a parliamentary democracy. Their lives couldn't be more different: Roman is routinely mobbed by paparazzi in Europe. Leigh is regularly mocked for having the social skills of a potted plant. Even if she suddenly developed grace, charm and a pedigree that would withstand the scrutiny of the press and his family, what exactly is she supposed to do with this would-have-been king of Austria who is in self-imposed exile in Denver, Colorado? A handsome prince, gut-busting laughs, love, dirty ballroom dancing, pathetic commoners, sex factoids, Vienna palaces, cursing in German, random hilarity, little to no frogs. See why tens of thousands of readers have fallen in love with this Amazon best seller! Because someday your prince will come...sort of. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leah Frederick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014598/bk_acx0_014598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mobbed Up
Mobbed Up - Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters the Mafia and the FBI: ab 17.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II
Three-disc set includes: Thunder On The Hill (1951)Based on the British play "Bonaventure," this involving mystery from director Douglas Sirk stars Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary Bonaventure, a nun who befriends Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth), a convicted murderess whose trip to death row has been delayed by a raging flood. Beginning to doubt Valerie's guilt, the sister becomes determined to clear her name and find the real killer. Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford also star. 84 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Price Of Fear (1956)When his mobbed-up new partner wants to take him out of the picture-with a frame-job for a homicide-a dog track owner (Lex Barker) decides to make himself scarce. The bad move becomes worse, when the mysterious lady (Merle Oberon) he thumbs a ride with proves to have a dangerous agenda of her own. Dark drama co-stars Charles Drake, Warren Stevens, Gia Scala. 79 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Female Animal (1958)Aging film goddess Vanessa Windsor (Hedy Lamarr, in her screen farewell), grateful for being rescued from an on-set calamity by hunky extra Chris Farley (George Nader), offers him a caretaker job. The young man's discomfort with the arrangement gets ramped up when his too-attentive boss battles for his attentions with her grown, hard-drinking daughter (Jane Powell)! Campy soaper co-stars Jan Sterling, James Gleason. 84 min. BW/Rtg: NR- Shop: odax
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Hold On
The career of the British Invasion pop group Herman's Hermits was in full, fan-shrieking, disc-selling orbit when their first top-billed movie came to theaters, so maybe it's only natural to think NASA would want to name a rocket after them. Well, at least that's what's at stake in this 1966 romp that has the five lads on a U.S. tour, where they're mobbed by various birds - and secretly monitored by a nerdy scientist to determine if they are rocket worthy. Yes, Hold On! Is not so much about making sense as it is about having fun. A double fistful of Hermits' songs (including the Top-10 hits a Must to Avoid and Leaning on the Lamp Post) adds to the good times. Shelley Fabares, no stranger to the charts with 1962's Johnny Angel, costars.- Shop: odax
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Tenchi Muyo War on Geminar: Part 2
Young Kenshi Masaki has his hands full catering to the whims of an entire academy of oversexed school girls, but a darkness looms on the horizon that will soon cast his life into chaos. The mysterious and enchanting Doll, controlled from afar by a power hungry madman, leads an unthinkable invasion that attacks the nubile students of the academy from inside it's once protective walls. To save his bevy of galactic playmates, Kenshi must summon the power of a Sacred Mechanoid and fight to preserve peace in a world that hovers on the brink of destruction. Should he survive, Kenshi will be mobbed by a hoard of comely coeds who want to make the hero their husband!- Shop: odax
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Finding Steve McQueen
In 1972, styling but shiftless Ohio motorhead Harry Barber (Travis Fimmel) was just trying to prove he belonged as wheelman for the crew of his mobbed-up, Nixon-loathing uncle Enzo (William Fichtner). He'd get his chance as Enzo brought his gang to California-with the intent of cracking the security deposit box rumored to contain an illegal $30 million presidential reelection slush fund. Flavorful, fact-inspired heist flick also stars Forest Whitaker, Rachael Taylor, Lily Rabe, Jake Weary. 91 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.- Shop: odax
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